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title: The termination -_tegw_, locative _tegok_, always means “river,” but… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The termination -_tegw_, locative _tegok_, always means “river,” but cannot be used separately. Who acts: termination tegw. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 26

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The termination -\_tegw\_, locative \_tegok\_, always means “river,” but cannot be used separately.

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**Who acts:** termination tegw · **What happens:** mean, not use · **To what, where:** river

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (termination tegw), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:2:26
# text = The termination -_tegw_, locative _tegok_, always means “river,” but cannot be used separately.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	termination	termination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tegw	tegw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	locative	locative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tegok	tegok	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
24	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | the termination tegw  tegok and locative | river |  |  |  | always *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **use** | can · passive | the termination tegw  tegok and locative *not said here* |  |  |  |  | separately *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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